The
outspoken Bell was in the middle of world events then that led to our
current morass. She spoke out in the company of Winston Churchill and
was in community with many Middle Eastern leaders at a time when women
were without voice in those countries.

A critique from a stage play about Ms. Bell included this observation:

"Ms
Bell meddled in Middle Eastern politics well into the modern era,
playing a significant role in persuading warring Sunni and Shia
tribesmen to subsume their tribal identities into the fragile,
cobbled-together state of Iraq. Ultimately, Bell was disillusioned and
then disconsolate to see the unraveling of her hopes, and to face the
mutant harvest of her life's work. To an uncanny degree, her words echo
the concerns raised since day one about the wisdom of current American
military intervention in Iraq."

"Gertrude Bell describes a
dawning awareness of her own and her country's naive entanglement in
ages-old loyalties and blood feuds,"

In my opinion, there are tons of women who have been overlooked because throughout history men have been dominant in society for a long time so the media focused on them. I can't think of anyone right now which makes me sad because women's accomplishments aren't known as popular as men's accomplishments like Albert Einstein and his inventions such as the light bulb.